Heh my dumbass friend brought his backpack through a checkpoint when he was heading back home from his dad's place in New York. What he didn't realize was his dad had used the backpack before giving it back to him and forgot his little single-shot .22 pistol in it. My buddy gets to the airport, puts his bag on the scanner, and next thing he knows he's got a military guy pointing a M4 at him while he's being handcuffed. They take him to the back, on one is believing that he didn't mean to have it, and wouldn't let him make any calls. After about 5 hours an FBI agent comes in, realizes that my friend is actually telling the truth, and has him call his dad. Dad comes, says it's his and he forgot it, my friend gets off, and is able to get another flight out.

He said the best part of it was the look on the TSA agent's face at the secuity checkpoint as he went through again (she was still on shift from when he was arrested).

/CSB//I forgot a box of ammo in my backpack going through once///No arrest, but I'm on a TSA "watch list"//Not a "No fly" list, but apparently they're watching me/Slashies!!

colinspooky:Can't believe this doesn't happen every 20 minutes at one US airport or another.........

A. Please, for the love of Christ, an ellipsis only has three periods, and is not an appropriate way to end a sentence, especially one at the end of the entirety of what you have written/a paragraph (such as it is). You might as well end your sentence with "^^^%%". It makes about as much sense grammatically.

B. The airport in TFA is the busiest in the world in terms of passenger traffic, and is located in Georgia, both certainly contributing to more guns being found on passengers compared to other airports.

Flying in June this year. I had 3 bags with me. Was originally planning to check two and carry on a third. Changed my mind at the last minute and instead of checking the bag with my clothes and toiletries I decided to check another one and carry that one on. Except I forgot the big bottle of mouthwash was in it. Total blank. Got stopped, and the bottle thrown away. No other hassle.

So yeah, I can see if a person is in a hurry and doesn't think about it and suddenly it's "oh shiat".

Flying in June this year. I had 3 bags with me. Was originally planning to check two and carry on a third. Changed my mind at the last minute and instead of checking the bag with my clothes and toiletries I decided to check another one and carry that one on. Except I forgot the big bottle of mouthwash was in it. Total blank. Got stopped, and the bottle thrown away. No other hassle.

So yeah, I can see if a person is in a hurry and doesn't think about it and suddenly it's "oh shiat".

Which begs the question, WHY is this an issue?Why doesn't TSA respond with "You will have to check this bag sir or throw the gun away."TADA, problem solved!!!

Sid_6.7:A. Please, for the love of Christ, an ellipsis only has three periods, and is not an appropriate way to end a sentence, especially one at the end of the entirety of what you have written/a paragraph (such as it is). You might as well end your sentence with "^^^%%". It makes about as much sense grammatically.

The "I forgot it was there" defense should be an automatic license revoke for 1 year on the first offense and permanently after that along with making it illegal for you to even own one. If you're not careful enough with a gun to even know where it is you don't deserve to have it.

"Thou shall not kill", an explicit commandment, isn't to be taken seriously.

The parts of Leviticus about tattoos and blended fabrics aren't to be taken seriously.

The part of Leviticus that tells priests of one, long gone temple in Jerusalem that homosexuality is not part of that, long gone priesthood, is cause to change United States law to forbid a third of Americans from having the same rights as the other two-thirds.

Geniuses, these executives. It's a miracle they ever remember that the chicken goes inside the bread in a chicken sandwich.

Guns seems like one of those things that are important enough that you should know where yours is at all times. Even if you think you know where it is, you should occasionally check just to make sure it's still there, too.